The Great Rope a Dope trick
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 27th, 2011 5:36 am by HL
The Great Rope a Dope trick
Barack Obama learned a political trick from Muhammad Ali called Rope a Dope. For you youngsters, this refers to the epic Rumble in the Jungle Heavyweight fight against George Foreman in 1974. Here is the Wikipedia explanation. The rope-a-dope is…
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Big Oil Doesn’t Need Handouts
Here’s a scary fact: Last year, the biggest five oil companies alone scored $76 billion in profits. And here’s an even scarier fact: Last year, the oil industry received more than $4 billion in tax breaks. These numbers don’t lie…
‘Pennies From Heaven’
When I joined Monitor Company (now Group) in the spring of 1992, the first party its directors, my new?colleagues,?invited me to was at Mitt Romney’s mansion in Belmont. Romney was at the time still with Bain Capital, but his political…
